For the most part, the focus of The Devil Wears Prada 2 press tour has been squarely on the three main stars: Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, and Emily Blunt. But Runway newcomer Simone Ashley has been holding her own over the last few weeks, in large part thanks to her impressive vintage pulls. On Monday, the British actor stepped out in New York City for a screening of the new film, wearing one of Balenciaga’s most famous Y2K-era collection.

Ashley wore a printed mini dress from Nicolas Ghesquière’s spring/summer 2003 collection for the brand. Inspired by sporting—specifically swimming and baseball—Ghesquière sent models down the runway in skintight pants perfect for the outfield and t-shirts protruding with padded shoulders. The designer also enlisted neoprene for scuba-adjacent mini dresses. That is what Ashley plucked from the collection, a piece manifesting summer with its depiction of coral reefs and jumping dolphins.

The 31-year-old paired the dress with black, patent leather pumps and a black Le City bag, keeping the accessories simple and within the Balenciaga universe.

Ashley has been wearing a lot of vintage recently. Last week, the 31-year-old actor wore a hot pink Thierry Mugler resort 1984 dress to DWP2’s London premiere. And while not vintage, she later changed into a Versace spring 2016 dress for the “A Night With Runway” event held after. Ashley even previously wore Ghesquière’s Balenciaga. Earlier this month, she threw on a fall 2003 parachute jacket and a larger version of the Le City bag for a stroll around New York.

While Ashley’s character, Amari, may be the new Andy Sachs in the DWP sequel, the actor herself does not need to waste her time with a trip to the Runway fashion closet. Anyone who can keep up with Streep, Hathaway, and Blunt—and appreciates Ghesquière’s Balenciaga as much as she does—has a bright sartorial future.

Teyana Taylor is a relative newcomer to the Met Gala. The Oscar-nominated actor only attended her first in 2021, but in just five years, she’s proven she deserves the elusive invite. Starting with an ab-baring Prabal Gurung dress in 2021, Taylor has managed to stick to the theme each year while still maintaining her style integrity. Last year, she took the biggest risk of all, attending “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” in an over-the-top look designed by famed costume designer Ruth E. Carter.

Luckily, we know 2026 will include another appearance from Taylor. The actor is on the event’s host committee, so she’s guaranteed an invite. And considering the theme revolves around the body as a canvas, we can assume Taylor will take the opportunity to show off her famous figure. We could be wrong, however. So, while we wait to see what Taylor wears for this trip up the Met steps, let’s take a look back at her Gala track record.

2025: “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style”

Teyana Taylor made quite the statement at the 2025 Met Gala. The multi-hyphenate wore an extravagant look created by Oscar-winning costume designer Ruth E. Carter, inspired by Taylor’s 2018 song, “Rose in Harlem.”

2024: “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion”

A blonde Taylor attended the 2024 event in a flower-covered, draped dress fittingly made for her by The Blonds.

2023: “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line Of Beauty”

Taylor paid homage to the late Karl Lagerfeld at the 2023 Met Gala in a custom Thom Browne tweed look with hip cut-outs.

2022: “In America: An Anthology of Fashion”

In 2022, Taylor walked the Met steps in an ethereal Iris Van Herpen design.

2021: “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion”

Taylor is known for showing off her abs, so it’s surprising she has only done so once at the Met Gala. The singer attended for the first time in 2021, wearing a barely-there Prabal Gurung silver gown. But what the dress lacked in a bodice, it made up for in train, as multiple yards of silver fabric followed Taylor throughout the night.

In 2008, when Zoë Kravitz was just 19 years old, she attended her first Met Gala. The actor has walked the Met steps a total of ten times, leaving her mark on the carpet with each ascension. Of course, Kravitz’s style has changed a lot in the 18 years since her first appearance. Early on in her Met career, the actor wore simpler looks created for her by designers like Alexander Wang and Derek Lam. In 2016, she took her first big swing with a Valentino couture mini dress, but it wasn’t until 2018 that she really hit her stride. That was the year when Saint Laurent started dressing Kravitz for the Met Gala, and since then, the actor hasn’t trusted anyone else with the job.

Kravitz hasn’t attended the Gala since 2021, but she will be there this year, and it’s safe to assume we will see her in another Anthony Vaccarello dress. The two are co-chairs of the host committee, meaning even more eyes will be on Kravitz than usual. So, while we wait to see what she brings to the 2026 event, let’s look back at all ten of Kravitz’s Met Gala looks from the past.

2021: “America: A Lexicon Of Fashion”

Zoë Kravitz attended the 2021 Met Gala in a slinky Saint Laurent dress.

The piece was completely see-through, which became all the more obvious when the actor turned around.

2019: “Camp: Notes on Fashion”

In 2019, Kravitz covered up a little bit more, arriving to the pink carpet in another Saint Laurent creation. This one was covered in oily black sequins and featured a unique bust cutout and neckline.

2018: “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & the Catholic Imagination”

The actor’s history of showing a lot of skin at the Met Gala can be traced back to 2018. That year, Kravitz attended the event in a one-armed, lace Saint Laurent dress with just two bows holding up the side.

2017: “Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art Of The In-Between”

Kravitz prioritized drama at the 2017 Met Gala, attending in a pale pink Oscar de la Renta gown with a cape that followed her as she ascended the stars.

2016: “Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology”

While from the front, Kravitz’s Valentino fall 2010 haute couture dress seems pretty simple, the back revealed a giant bow that looked like wings from some angles.

Kravitz paired the mini with some tulle-covered shoes and a lace face mask from the same Valentino collection.

2015: “China: Through The Looking Glass”

In 2015, Kravitz wore a silver chainmail dress designed by Alexander Wang.

2014: “Charles James: Beyond Fashion”

A blonde bobbed Kravitz attended the Met Gala in 2014 wearing a low-cut red dress with a thigh slit from Topshop.

2011: “Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty”

A 22-year-old Kravitz wore a Derek Lam two-toned dress to the 2011 event.

2010: “American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity”

Kravitz wore her most casual Met Gala look in 2010, a white tank and black column skirt from Alexander Wang for Gap, which she paired with a python skin clutch.

2008: “Superheroes: Fashion And Fantasy”

The actor attended her first Met Gala in 2008, wearing a mint green velvet dress and fur stole that could have been plucked straight out of the Roaring ’20s.

The impressive pool of 20 semifinalists competing for the annual LVMH Prize for Young Fashion Designers has been carefully narrowed to just eight names. The group hails from all walks of life, representing a variety of design techniques, business acumen, and technical skills. The one thing they have in common? A jury of industry all-stars saw something special in their work.

But the hard part is hardly over. On September 4, these eight designers will gather once again when the jury hands out the main Prize alongside the Karl Lagerfeld Prize and Savoir-Faire Prize. Last year, it was Soshiotsuki who received the big honor, with Steve O Smith, and Torishéju taking home the other two trophies, as well as the money and mentorship programs attached.

You may already recognize some of the names on the finalist list. Colleen Allen, Zane Li, and Julie Kegels have all been featured in the pages of W, while Daniel del Valle Fernandez made quite a stir last season with his debut collection for Thevxlley. But there are many brands still waiting for their moment in the spotlight, and the Prize could provide just the kind of support necessary to take their businesses to the next level. It’s never too early to familiarize yourself with tomorrow’s icons.

Colleen Allen

Designer: Colleen Allen

Location: United States

Specialty: Womenswear

Fans: Carey Mulligan, Hannah Einbinder, Lily Allen (no relation), Greta Lee, Mikey Madison, Ayo Edebiri

In just four seasons, Colleen Allen has managed to become a New York fashion darling. Really, though, it happened faster than that. Following Allen’s debut during the spring 2025 season, editors immediately took notice. Initially a menswear designer, Allen was introduced to womenswear during her time at The Row. Now, she is designing for her eponymous label, delivering seasonal collections that very carefully skirt a fantastical line. She’s often inspired by the mystical and spiritual, but she distills these ideas into distinctly modern collections. While some of her clothing can undoubtedly be described as “witchy,” what is more evident is the sense of a self-empowered woman dressing herself. A jacket is fitted at the waist and boasts Victorian-era hook-and-eye closures down the front, but its construction in fleece makes it contemporary (and a front-runner for your next hike). Her use of color has also been lauded, as she dabbles in poppy orange, saffron red, royal purple, and chartreuse. She picks her colors with care each season, the orange first entering due to its association with spiritual awareness. Most recently, Allen expanded into the accessory category with the release of bustle handbags, which can be worn under the arm or under the skirt. It is likely the first sign of major growth in the brand’s future.

De Pino

Designer: Gabriel Figueiredo

Location: France

Specialty: Womenswear

Fans: Lady Gaga, Hailey Bieber, Caroline Polachek, and Dara Allen

Gabriel Figueiredo staged his first runway show for his label De Pino during Paris Couture Week—a statement in itself. Amid the fait-main stalwarts came this young French label characterized by exaggerated silhouettes that provide a cheekiness to an otherwise sophisticated design language. Figueiredo is a student of fashion. Yes, he is a graduate of the Brussels visual arts school, La Cambre, from which he gained a master’s degree in fashion design in 2017, but his education extends beyond the purely academic setting. Figueiredo references icons like Lady Gaga and Martin Margiela (he’s done embroidery work for Maison Margiela), along with Tumblr, Style.com, and Nicolas Ghesquière’s Balenciaga days. In many ways, his designs embody this sense of nostalgia, but viewed through the eyes of a craftsman. “There’s definitely a childish vision of fashion,” he told W in 2024 after his debut. “It’s a mix between these really extreme sophistications, but also something childlike and fun.”

Institution

Designer: Galib Gassanoff

Location: Georgia

Specialty: Womenswear, menswear, and genderless

Galib Gassanoff could be considered a bit of a hometown hero. For three seasons, the Georgia-born designer has been championing the traditional craft and history of his country. For fall 2026, this meant employing weavers for three showpieces. They produced beautiful rugs, each of which required as many as 85,000 knots made from bouclé and felted double-face wool. The pieces brought color to a mostly neutral collection, as three models ended the show in beautifully crafted designs that were very obvious in their origins—rugs that had been draped on models in an obvious, yet still artistic way. Elsewhere, camouflaging was more central, as skirts and dresses made from shoelaces danced down the runway, creating incredible texture that needed to be studied to reveal its true nature. Fabrication is one of Gassanoff’s strengths, and he usually allows textiles to lead the way in his process, which has proven successful. But Gassanoff’s inspirations also carry weight. For fall 2026, the designer looked toward Georgian and Azerbaijani history—specifically, the story of women’s suffrage and political independence in those countries. Between the heaviness of history and the cheekiness of art and craft, Gassanoff has been able to thrive.

Julie Kegels

Designer: Julie Kegels

Location: Belgium

Specialty: Womenswear

When designing, Julie Kegels always thinks about women. That sounds like an obvious approach, but it’s the detail in which the Belgian designer considers her customer that makes the act unique. “I always have a group of women in mind, and they appear in different guises, in different stories,” she told W in 2025. “I think, Okay, this is for a woman who works at the library, is passionate about tennis, and loves to eat mango—I really get into the details.” The specifics are often where contrasts can be found. A working woman is one thing, but if she’s a working woman with three children who loves to spend her off days at the roller derby, she’s dressing very differently from her single-minded counterpart. And it’s within these contrasts and juxtapositions that Kegels finds inspiration. For three seasons (she launched in 2024), Kegels has been slowly amassing a fan base with her twisted classics. Last season, that meant a silk shirt dress imprinted with a shadow or a jacket featuring a cropped, rounded hem that gave the look of a woman walking with her hands on her hips. Kegels has mastered the art of surprise, but not at the expense of the clothes, which still boast an impressive level of wearability. “What I really love—and this is when things get interesting for me—is when something is a bit weird.”

Lii

Designer: Zane Li

Location: China

Specialty: Womenswear and menswear

Fans: Jennifer Lawrence, Ayo Edebiri, Greta Lee

Perhaps you’ve seen Jennifer Lawrence or Ayo Edebiri in an untraditional, layered fit recently—one that resembled a high-fashion take on the Joey Tribbiani moment in Friends when he asks, “Could I be wearing any more clothes?” Well, the women were dressed in Lii, one of the hottest brands of the moment. Founded by Chinese designer Zane Li after his graduation from the Fashion Institute of Technology, Lii rejects the fragility of fashion and instead focuses on the durable. This often means creating dresses and blouses from more traditional menswear fabrics. His inspirations of 1990s American sportswear and Cristóbal Balenciaga are clear within his work. Those seem like disparate ideas, but they encapsulate Li’s design ethos effectively. “People think that if you wear something ladylike or something old-fashioned and traditional, then you’re uncool,” he told W last year. “But I don’t think that way; I want to explore the possibility of putting practicality into glamorous dressing.” Li works with his husband, stylist Jason Rider, who helps with all aspects of the brand outside of designing. Together, the two have built Lii up to a fashion darling, one that mixes architecture and elegance with utility.

Petra Fagerström

Designer: Petra Fagerström

Location: Sweden

Specialty: Womenswear

Fans: Charli xcx

Petra Fagerström is creating fashion for the future by looking back. The Swedish designer uses traditional craft techniques to create modern designs. She launched her brand last year after graduating with her master’s from Central Saint Martins, and only just showed at fashion week for the first time. The theme for that collection stemmed from her experiences ice skating growing up in Gothenburg, an activity she gave up when she got into designing. The sartorial life of a skater was represented with sequins and fur trims, but also a warm-up top that could be an ancestor of the Dior Bar jacket. There is an understanding of fabrication, as well as a youthful excitement still prominent within Fagerström’s work. She utilizes an impressive technique of ironing and stitching to create optical illusions that blur right before one’s eyes. In an interview with Vogue, Fagerström spoke of her interest in cultural archetypes and if they “can be transformed into something sharper and more powerful, while rejecting the aspects of being a woman today that frustrate me.” That is clear in her first collection, but we will have to see where Fagerström takes the brand (and if the Prize will provide a boost to those endeavors).

Ponte

Designer: Harry Pontefract

Location: United Kingdom

Specialty: Womenswear and menswear

There’s an artistry in Harry Pontefract’s work. Some of it is immediately obvious, like a woman in his recent collection, Series Five, who’s surrounded by a dress of stockinged limbs in what could double as a museum-worthy sculpture. Other times, it’s more subtle, like a well-tailored suit with a charcoal-like glean, an effect that occurred when it was painstakingly colored in with pencils. The process took hours, which isn’t unique for Pontefract. And while he might work on a couture timeline, the results are impressively simple and wearable, something on which he prides himself. Of course, that isn’t true of everything (the stocking look may be hard to wear to the store). Pontefract understands that he sits within a space of juxtoposition “between art and fashion,” as he describes it to Vogue. And thus far, that placement has been a successful one for him. It’s Pontefract’s ability to combine the everyday with the unexpected that has turned him into a designer to watch.

Thevxlley

Designer: Daniel del Valle Fernandez

Location: United Kingdom

Specialty: Genderless

The line between art and fashion is even further blurred at Thevxlley (pronounced “the valley”). Daniel del Valle Fernandez grew up in Pilas, a small town near Sevilla, and moved to London at 19. He worked in floristry to make ends meet, so it’s no surprise that flowers seem to be a large theme of his work these days. They popped up repeatedly in The Narcissist, the collection he showed during London Fashion Week in February. Fernandez described the work as “a catalogue of obsessions.” It seems his focus was more so on those items—bread, ceramics, flowers—with their wearable nature becoming an afterthought. Fernandez pulled from his upbringing for the collection. His father is a baker, ceramics are ubiquitous in Southern Spain, and he even used his mom’s wedding dress. He was not traditionally trained, but learned from the craftsman whom he grew up around. The result is a physical manifestation of Fernandez’s creativity. A wooden corset acts as shelving for dozens of mini vases, while a dress is a still life blooming with wax flowers. Nothing is as it seems. A shirt is a vase, is a basket, is a loaf of bread. It’s confounding and strange, beautiful and funny. It’s fashion for art’s sake.

Yoshita 1967

Designer: Anil Padia

Location: Kenya

Specialty: Womenswear

Yoshita 1967 is all about craft—specifically the kind that hails from the cultures in which Padia was raised as an Indian boy growing up in central Kenya. After a short stint at Central Saint Martins, Padia went to Paris, where he spent time at Paco Rabanne, Y Project, and Jacquemus. There, he shaped his boyhood creativity into something more tangible. An early goal of Yoshita was to highlight often-overlooked skills from his upbringing. Because of that, all the crochet and embellishment details in his work are done by hand, a slow but rewarding process. A look through Padia’s debut collection, Temple Road, which showed at Paris Fashion Week, will find these techniques coming together in spectacular form. Brightly colored crocheted dresses are dotted with mirrors or little bells; the latter pops up throughout Padia’s work. “They are my obsession, because they hold so many layers at once: culture, dance, heritage, family memory,” he tells One. It’s a fitting symbol for Yoshita, which seems to encompass all of those things.

Sometimes it feels like fresh handbags are hitting the market every single day. Just moments after you swipe your card for a new going-out bag, a casual scroll through Instagram may reveal another contender. Every time Bella Hadid steps out on the town, or Dua Lipa posts a new photo, they have a new covetable carry-all by their side. It’s downright overwhelming, but it’s not surprising. Accessories have long been a major seller for luxury brands, and there’s an incentive to release new and updated pieces. Are we to blame for wanting them all?

The situation has gotten even bigger thanks to the constant designer debuts. It seems that whenever someone takes the helm at a brand, they’re expected to couple their first collection with a new bag. The spring 2026 season brought with it many inaugural collections from new creative directors—and now, we’re reaping the benefits. Since the beginning of the year, many bags have become available, and they’re already in the closets of fashion’s most influential faces. Yes, you can collect them all, but if you’re attempting to be more selective (and save a few bucks), see below for a breakdown of the year’s It bags, so you can determine which one (or two...or three) will be right for you.

Gucci Borsetto

The Gucci Borsetto is one of those handbags you know about before it even launches, because you see it on the arms of all your favorite It girls. Prior to becoming available to the public earlier this year, the accessory was already seen held by Alex Consani and Vittoria Ceretti. Since then, Demi Moore, Kate Moss, and Dua Lipa have given the design their expert seal of approval too (with Moss also starring in the bag’s campaign).

The name Borsetto comes from an amalgamation of borsa (Italian for “bag”) and morsetto (Italian for “horse bit”). Of course, the piece features Gucci’s iconic horse bit, placed on the front of the bag atop the house’s two-tone stripe. With an elongated zipper and detachable strap, the Borsetto allows for versatility; an array of colors offers a more subtle look—black leather, brown suede—or something a bit more flashy with the classic GG monogram.

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Bottega Veneta Veneta

Jacob Elordi has one of the best bag collections out there, and if he cosigns a design, it’s worth a second look. Of course, Elordi is a Bottega boy, so it’s no surprise the actor was one of the first to get his hands on the brand’s newest Veneta bag. The Veneta was first created in the ’70s by Bottega cofounder Renzo Zengiaro before being reintroduced under its current name in 2002. Last year, as part of spring 2026—Louise Trotter’s first with the brand—the Veneta was reimagined in four new sizes. The updated Veneta also features leather strips of 1.2cm width, padded out with a soft interior filler, allowing for a more cushioned feel. It has already proven to be a favorite of Julianne Moore, Olivia Dean, and Elle Fanning.

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Loewe Amazona 180

No, this isn’t just a list of Kate Moss’s favorite bags (we already did that). It’s just that the model is always on the cutting edge of accessories. That’s why it’s no surprise she was one of the first to get her hands on the new Loewe bag, one of the many spring 2026 designs that fall under the “Pickpocket Bags” category. When the Amazona 180 first appeared at Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez’s debut show for the house, it was presented unzipped. And while you may have thought that was just a styling technique, here Moss is, proving the look can be taken to the streets (with caution).

Of course, the zipper does work, so those afraid of losing their phone need not fear—and the style also fits under the shoulder for extra protection. The Amazona 180 (named for Loewe’s 180th anniversary) also features a removable crossbody strap and comes in a variety of colors, as well as three sizes. Moss opted for the large in black leather, but the mini in blue makes for a perfect, bright addition of color to any outfit.

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Versace Pivot

Versace is championing the continuing domination of the bucket bag, a silhouette that has often been ignored by luxury brands despite its extreme popularity on the street. Straight from Dario Vitale’s debut (and only Versace show), the Pivot Bag leapt off the runway and onto the arms of Alex Consani, Chloë Sevigny, and Amanda Seyfried. It brings some color to this lineup, with offerings in cobalt blue and aquamarine suede. But those looking for something subtler will also be drawn to the black, camel, or chocolate brown leather. And, of course, upon the front lies the classic Versace Medusa emblem—lest anyone mistake the bag for another brand. It is flanked by a chain that swoops from the lip to the side strap for an extra flourish that feels quintessentially Versace.

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Chanel Maxi Flapbag

The most elusive of this new crop of bags is undoubtedly Matthieu Blazy’s ludicrously capacious take on Chanel’s classic Flap. After debuting on the runway during the spring 2026 season (Blazy’s first with the brand), the collection released to much fanfare in March. Everyone wanted to get the bag, but most walked away empty-handed—adding, of course, to the appeal. It also helps, of course, that the purse is equal parts chic and practical, with its large size allowing for use as a work or travel bag. And while the layman may continue to struggle to add the Maxi Flapbag to their closet, Hailey Bieber, Kendall Jenner, Jennie, and even Harry Styles have been taunting us, flaunting their own acquisitions on the street.

Valentino Garavani Devain

Many of the bags on this list fall squarely in the “everyday” category, but with its latest offering, Valentino is suggesting an accessory for evening. First presented in the pre-fall 2025 collection, the Devain has been seen on everyone. And we mean everyone: Sabrina Carpenter, Dakota Johnson, Olivia Rodrigo, Hailey Bieber, Selena Gomez, Bella Hadid, Margot Robbie...the list goes on. That’s likely due to the versatility: the accessory comes in a wide swath of colors, fabrics, and embellishments, allowing one to mix and match, working the Devain into their existing wardrobe. There’s a denim version embroidered with flowers, a metallic blue one covered in sequins and beads, a completely crocheted option—and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The many iterations make the bag feel customizable. And as an added bonus, the variety decreases the chance of you carrying the same bag as your best friend on a night out.

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It feels like we’ve been talking about The Devil Wears Prada 2 for eons. Ever since those first paparazzi shots from set appeared online last summer, the chatter has been non-stop. Now, for the past month, the stars of the film have been on a seemingly never-ending press tour, traveling from country to country for premieres, press conferences, and photo ops, with every stop turning into a headline-making moment.

That’s, of course, thanks in part to the stars’ rotating wardrobe. Wherever Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, and Emily Blunt go, there’s no question that an array of luggage follows. Every time we see one of the film’s main trio, they’re in another custom or right-of-the-runway ensemble. In fact, the other night, at the European premiere, the threesome all engaged in an unexpected outfit change, each debuting not one, but two show-stopping looks within the same evening. It’s enough to exhaust even the most ardent fashion or pop culture fan, so do not feel bad if you’re struggling to keep up. We all have jobs, kids, and lives to attend to; we don’t have time to keep track of this never-ending sartorial parade. Still, though, there are some notable moments in there (Streep, specifically, has been turning out some must-see outfits). So, to make sure you don’t miss even one, we’re rounding up all the looks from the DWP2 press tour. That’s all.

After an array of premieres, Anne Hathaway stepped into a slightly more comfortable look as she continued to promote the The Devil Wears Prada sequel in London. The actor wore a gray knit set featuring a peplum top hemmed in fur from Stella McCartney fall/winter 2026. She paired the ensemble with suede maroon So Kate pumps from Christian Louboutin and Bulgari sunglasses.

The real star of Streep’s European premiere look is the custom Judith Leiber Runway clutch, which she wore with her sophisticated satin Prada ensemble.

Hathaway was joined by Donatella Versace at the European premiere, which was appropriate considering the actor wore a midnight blue, velvet Atelier Versace dress featuring a nude illusion corset and Medusa buttons down the front.

The trio was completed by Blunt, who, like Streep, wore pants to the European premiere, albeit with an overskirt. The ensemble was courtesy of Balenciaga spring 2026.

Following the premiere, the women attended “A Night With Runway” gala reception, for which a wardrobe change was necessary. Streep broke the unspoken black, white, and red dress code for the evening, but it was worth it given the high glamour of this sequin-covered Richard Quinn fall 2023 coat.

Hathaway, meanwhile, changed into a custom striped Louis Vuitton gown featuring a layered skirt, which she paired with Bulgari jewelry.

Freeing her legs, Blunt arrived to the second event in a lace mini dress from Dior spring/summer 2026 couture, which she wore with Jimmy Choo platform heels.

The red looks continued at the New York premiere, where Streep showed up in an Andre Leon Talley-adjacent cape dress from Givenchy by Sarah Burton fall 2026.

Hathaway matched her costar in another custom Louis Vuitton dress. This one boasted a silk bustier corset top and exaggerated tea-length skirt.

Blunt broke up the sea of red by attending the New York premiere in an extremely dramatic look from Schiaparelli spring 2026 haute couture.

Later, she got more comfortable and changed into a Balmain fall 2026 top and skirt to attend the premiere after party with her husband, John Krasinski.

I think we can all agree that this Gucci fur coat was basically made to be worn by Streep.

Suiting has been a staple for Streep throughout this press tour. She headed to the SiriusXM studio on April 20 in a black tailored Celine look featuring not one, not two, but four belts, and Bared Footwear boots.

Another NYC outing called for a Dolce & Gabbana maroon patent leather trench, which Streep threw over a Gabriela Hearst dress and finished off with a suede Manu Atelier bag.

Hathaway promoted the sequel on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert in a Versace fall 1991 black mini dress, originally worn by Naomi Campbell on the runway.

Is that Meryl or Miranda? It’s honestly hard to tell. We could totally see the Runway boss in this Saint Laurent fall 2025 satin coat dress.

Hathaway went in a slightly more demure direction to promote DWP2 in Shanghai. The actor wore a tulle-covered Susan Fang fall 2026 dress, quite the contrast to Streep’s look.

If there’s a red suit out there, someone from the DWP2 cast nabbed it for the press tour. Here, we see Streep in a Prada double-breasted jacket with wide-leg pants for a press conference in Seoul.

Clearly, volume is one of the themes of this press tour, and Hathaway hit the brief when she attended a press conference for the film in Seoul wearing this Vaquera spring 2026 look.

The Seoul premiere of DWP2 called for an all-black Celine look featuring high-waisted pants, a draped top, and a leather belt to pull it all together.

Hathaway first got into the red theme in Seoul, when she wore a leather Balenciaga fall 2026 set to one of the movie’s first premieres.

Some of Streep’s best looks this press tour haven’t even been on the red carpet. Here, we see the actor en route to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert wearing a leopard print Givenchy by Sarah Burton pre-fall 2026 pussy bow coat, accessorized with The Hudson bag from DeMellier.

The two DWP2 stars attended a Mexico Fashion Week event in contrasting looks. Streep wore a dark blue Schiaparelli shirt dress while Hathaway opted for a Stella McCartney fall 2026 sequined mini with the same thigh-high boots from the runway.

Hathaway and Streep kicked off the press tour in Mexico back in March. Hathaway wore Schiaparelli fall 2025 to the first event, while Streep set the red precedent in a custom Dolce & Gabbana suit.

The house of Dior is no stranger to a museum show. Over the years, the Brooklyn Museum, V&A in London, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and many more have showcased the artistry of the French fashion brand, with exquisite couture garments also traveling to Paris and Seoul, then back again. Evolving the narrative of a Dior exhibition, or presenting something that a globe-trotting fan hasn’t already experienced in Dallas, Riyadh, or Australia, becomes a hurdle. But Dior: Crafting Fashion, on view now at the SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film in Atlanta, Georgia, handles the task with ease. Using the university environment as a guide, the latest in a long line of unforgettable Dior expositions manages to find a fresh perspective.

Hélène Starkman, the exhibition curator for Christian Dior Couture and the curator of Crafting Fashion, calls the new show “Dior 101.” This is the first time the brand’s gotten the opportunity to showcase within a college setting. “Students are at the heart of this exhibition,” she tells W. While Crafting Fashion is for any style buff lucky enough to find themselves in the Atlanta area, it’s the Savannah College of Art and Design students who drove Starkman’s curatorial decisions.

“Students need to understand that, to be creative, you have to have your own internal mood board,” she adds. “Sometimes, when you’re young, you think creation will come from within.” With Crafting Fashion, Starkman shows these students the need for artists to explore outside their chosen creative bubble.

Crafting Fashion begins with a breakdown of Dior’s eight creative directors, from founder Christian Dior himself to the recently appointed Jonathan Anderson. The first display features just eight garments, one couture look from each director. Each piece was inspired by something outside the world of fashion. A red velvet suit by Dior acts as an homage to Monsieur Dior’s close friendship with artist and illustrator Christian Bérard. A simple black dress with a structured, pleated skirt by Yves Saint Laurent references French New Wave cinema, and a splattered Marc Bohan creation brings to mind the work of Jackson Pollock.

“It’s important to show students that all these designers are museum-goers and theater-goers,” Starkman says. Anyone who is a fan of Anderson’s knows he is continuing that legacy; he championed the Loewe Craft Prize during his time with the Spanish brand, and his first few collections with Dior have proven he is bringing his love of ceramics and classic books to the new gig. A dress from Anderson’s first Dior couture collection—which concludes the opening gallery—was directly inspired by Kenya-born artist Magdalene Odundo, in all its onyx and shapely glory.

The first room represented the kernel of an idea—next comes the process, conveyed through the second gallery, where dreamy designs are boiled down to their most elementary parts. It’s not often one visits a couture exhibition and is faced with mannequins dressed in muslin, but that peek into the process allows Crafting Fashion to stand out from its predecessors. The pieces of fabric stand next to their finished counterparts, scribbled upon and pinned with embellishment prototypes. It’s a reminder (for students, but those with degrees as well) that high fashion does not bloom overnight.

Crafting Fashion isn’t the first exhibition Dior and SCAD have done together. Last year, the fashion house and university worked on Christian Dior: Jardins Rêvés at the school’s Lacoste campus in France. Those unable to make it to Provence, however, can now step into Crafting Fashion’s third gallery, where the focus is on the garden—a major theme for Christian Dior, the son of a fertilizer manufacturer. Dior often looked to florals for inspiration, and his successors frequently returned to the botanical world as well.

Dior fans will recognize many of the garments in this section, like the herbarium dresses from Maria Grazia Chiuri’s first couture collection. An orange floral dress with a strapless bodice and voluminous bubble skirt, meanwhile, is a rarer find. Known as the Mexico dress and created by Saint Laurent, the piece was only recently acquired by Dior and is displayed in Atlanta for the first time.

Also making its museum debut is an orange skirt-and-jacket set, which actor Olivia de Havilland wore to the Atlanta “re-premiere” of Gone With the Wind in 1961. In the final room of the exhibition—the largest one—Georgia history comes into play once again with the inclusion of a Chiuri-designed bar suit homage: Georgia-born actor Elle Fanning wore the look to the Cannes Film Festival in 2019. This last area is dedicated to celebrity dressing, where everyone from Marilyn Monroe to Rihanna is represented in the form of jaw-dropping Dior gowns.

Documents decorate the galleries, providing context, sketches, and a behind-the-scenes for nearly every garment. There is much more paperwork in Crafting Fashion than one will find in other Dior exhibitions (but don’t worry, you won’t be tested on the matieral.) With these inclusions, Starkman hopes to show SCAD students that “designer” isn’t the only job in fashion.

“You can work in the atelier and actually sew the garments,” she says. “You can create accessories, bags, or hats. You can work on the perfume, the makeup, the fashion shows.” Or, you can design exhibitions, and if Crafting Fashion were a SCAD assignment, Starkman would receive an A+.

There are plenty of celebrity brides at the moment. Dua Lipa, Zendaya, Taylor Swift could all be donning that big white gown at any second as they walk down the aisle to say, “I do.” But do these women (or anyone with a diamond ring recently placed on their finger) have a Monopoly on the white garment? Rosé says, “Absolutely not.” She may not be planning her upcoming nuptials (as far as we know), but she can enjoy an ivory, cream, or eggshell look as much as the next girl.

On Thursday night, she proved as much at Tiffany and Co.’s launch of the Blue Book 2026: Hidden Garden collection, held at the Park Avenue Armory in New York. The K-Pop star attended the event in a dress from Khaite’s fall/winter 2026 collection. Rendered in all-white aside from a black bow at the waist, the look features an airy, lace camisole top, anchored by a heavier, draped skirt. Rosé paired the design with some white, razor-sharp stilettos and, of course, Tiffany & Co. jewels.

Rosé was joined by a slew of other celebrities also decked out in Tiffany’s finest, including Amanda Seyfried, Gabrielle Union, Chase Sui Wonders, and Greta Lee. The five women posed for the cameras before Rosé headed inside. It was there that she met up with some of her white-adorned compatriots: Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Connor Storie.

To be fair, Storrie’s Calvin Klein Collection suit leans more toward a very light yellow, but Huntington-Whiteley’s column dress from The New Arrivals is undoubtedly white. In fact, the two women looked a bit like they were filming a reboot of Bride Wars when standing side-by-side. In reality, though, there’s clearly no bad blood between Rosé/ie, and Huntington-Whiteley even took the opportunity to introduce Rosé to Storrie before the three posed for a picture, and stans around the world let out a collective cheer.

These days, hardly a major fashion week goes by without Anne Hathaway sitting front row. The actor has become a fashion staple, sitting next to Anna Wintour while taking in the latest Michael Kors or chatting with Blackpink’s Lisa at Bulgari’s high jewelry collection. But that wasn’t always the case.

When Hathaway first hit the scene after starring in The Princess Diaries back in 2001, she was walking red carpets in dresses layered over jeans and short-sleeve button-downs with ties—looks so stereotypically Y2K, they’re not getting re-created now, even with the aughts style resurgence. A quick bond with Valentino Garavani changed all that, however, and Hathaway quickly became a Valentino girl (a title she still holds to this day), wearing gorgeous gowns on every red carpet she stepped on. The actor has never been afraid of a little embellishment, and it’s rare to see her in a look without at least a hint of sparkle, meaning she always stands out among the sea of stars at every event. Now, Hathway is as busy as ever as she promotes the sequel to The Devil Wears Prada alongside Meryl Streep (and often Wintour, as well). Of course, that means she has to step up her fashion game, though if anyone is up to the challenge, it’s Hathaway. As we wait to see what she will wear next on this global fashion tour, let’s take a look back at 25 years of the actor’s style, from her days as the Princess of Genovia to now.

2026: Mother Mary New York Premiere

Anne Hathaway took a break from her constant promotion of The Devil Wears Prada 2 to support her other upcoming film, Mother Mary. She attended the New York premiere for the A24 flick in a dreamy, sci-fi-adjacent Lever Couture dress made of strips of mesh ribbon.

2026: The Devil Wears Prada 2 Seoul Premiere

The Susan Fang fall 2026 dress Hathaway wore to the Seoul premiere of The Devil Wears Prada 2 was a bit more demure than the other ensembles we’ve seen the actor in lately.

2026: Bulgari Eclettica High Jewelry Event

This magenta Valentino spring 2025 haute couture gown was the perfect choice for a Bulgari High Jewelry event, as it created a gorgeous frame for her show-stopping Emerald Strata necklace.

2026: Academy Awards

Hathaway took the stage at the 2026 Oscars alongside Anna Wintour, and she did so in a gorgeous, floral Valentino haute couture gown.

2025: Met Gala

Hathaway channeled Andre Leon Talley at the Met Gala in 2025 in a bedazzled Carolina Herrera skirt and a simple white button-up.

2024: The Idea Of You Premiere

In a red hot Versace gown, Hathaway channeled pure bombshell glamour during the premiere of her rom-com, The Idea of You.

2024: Film Independent Spirit Awards

Hathaway lit up the Film Independent Spirit Awards in this disco diva look from Valentino.

2024: SAG Awards

Navy blue? Nope, it’s cerulean.

2023: The Fashion Awards

Hathaway brought a piece of design history to the 2023 Fashion Awards where she hit the red carpet in a woven Valentino design dated to the spring 1993 season.

2023: CFDA Awards

To host the 2023 CFDA Awards, Hathaway turned up to the annual event in a denim two-piece look from Ralph Lauren.

2023: She Came To Me Premiere

The actor cut a stylish figure in a sequined The Attico dress for the premiere of She Came To Me.

2023: Dead Man Walking Premiere

Hathaway nailed this gothic Versace look for the opening night of the Met Opera’s Dead Man Walking in 2023.

2023: Met Gala

Hathaway was undoubtedly one of the Met Gala’s best dressed attendees in a body-hugging white Versace gown. The tweed look blended signature details of the Italian brand as well as those of the event’s honoree, Karl Lagerfeld.

2022: Armageddon Time Premiere

Hathaway wore a silver, embellished Valentino fall 2022 haute couture dress with matching boots to the premiere of Armageddon Time at the New York Film Festival.

2022: Cannes Film Festival

The actor kept it sleek and simple at Cannes, wearing a white, sequin-covered Armani Privé dress with a silk stole and train.

2022: WeCrashed Premiere

Hathaway showed some skin in a blue and black David Koma spring 2022 dress at the WeCrashed premiere in March 2022.

2020: Critics’ Choice Awards

Hathaway looked as glamorous as ever in a gold Atelier Versace dress with a plunging neckline and dramatic sleeves.

2020: Modern Love Premiere

Showing off her baby bump in an off-white Oscar de la Renta one-shoulder top with white pants, Hathaway attended the premiere of Modern Love in NYC.

2019: The Hustle Premiere

Hathaway wore a suit-inspired, embroidered Elie Saab pre-fall 2019 jumpsuit to the premiere of The Hustle.

2019: Serenity Premiere

The attention was on this gorgeous Givenchy spring 2018 haute couture skirt when Hathaway smartly paired in with a simple black turtleneck bodysuit from Wolford.

2019: Golden Globe Awards

Hathaway wore this cheetah print Elie Saab gown with a high slit to the 2019 Golden Globes.

2018: Ocean’s 8 Premiere

The actor embraced patterns in this Jean Paul Gaultier spring 2018 haute couture empire waist halter dress at the premiere of Ocean’s 8 in June 2018.

2018: Met Gala

Hathaway looked exceptionally regal in this Valentino spring 2018 couture dress, which she paired with a sunburst halo crown.

2017: Colossal Premiere

Wearing an Armani Privé spring 2006 gown with a sculptural neckline and ruffled skirt, Hathaway attended the premiere of her film, Colossal.

2016: Alice Through the Looking Glass Premiere

Hathaway’s whimsical Christopher Kane knee-length dress covered in roses was the perfect choice to promote an Alice in Wonderland film.

2016: Vanity Fair Oscar Party

The actor wore a Naeem Kahn dress with an embroidered, art deco style overlay to the Vanity Fair Oscar party in 2016.

2015: Met Gala

Hathaway proved sometimes simplicity is key in this custom Ralph Lauren gold lamé hooded column dress at the Met Gala in 2015.

2014: Interstellar Premiere

Wearing a long-sleeve Wes Gordon spring 2015 dress, Hathaway attended the premiere for Interstellar in London.

2014: Met Gala

Hathaway’s red Calvin Klein column dress with a sheer insert at the waist is reminiscent of the white Armani gown she wore to Cannes in 2022.

2014: Academy Awards

The actor wore a crystal-embellished black, silk crepe halter neck dress to the Oscars in 2014.

2013: Met Gala

The actor went a bit edgier for the 2013 Met Gala, wearing a Valentino couture gown with sheer side panels and stripes of embellishments. She walked the red carpet with Valentino Garavani himself, as she showed off her newly-dyed blonde hair.

2013: Academy Awards

When Hathaway won her first and only Academy Award, she did so in a pale pink, column halter dress from Prada.

2013: Les Miserables Premiere

Hathaway loves a good column silhouette, which is likely why she gravitated toward this strapless, fuchsia Prada gown with an embellished neckline.

2013: SAG Awards

The actor wore a Giambattista Valli spring 2013 couture dress featuring a tulle overskirt to the SAG awards in 2013.

2013: Golden Globe Awards

Hathaway looked gorgeous in this white Chanel spring 2009 couture gown with a slim peplum and subtle embellishment.

2012: The Dark Knight Rises Premiere

The actor wore a gold beaded Gucci resort 2013 gown with a floral-covered halter neckline to the premiere of The Dark Knight Rises in 2012.

2012: One Day Premiere

Hathaway looked especially sophisticated in a lace Alexander McQueen resort 2012 dress at the One Day Premiere in London.

2011: Academy Awards

The actor embodied Old Hollywood glamour in a Valentino fall 2002 couture gown at the Oscars in 2011.

2011: Golden Globe Awards

It’s all about the open back when it comes to this bronze Armani Privé fall 2010 dress.

2010: Met Gala

Hathaway went full princess when she wore this strapless, gold Valentino pre-fall 2010 dress with a large tulle skirt to the Met Gala in 2010.

2010: Alice in Wonderland Premiere

The actor always seems to gravitate toward metallics, so this choice of a bronze Vivienne Westwood dress with an asymmetric hem for the premiere of Alice in Wonderland in London makes sense for the actor.

2009: Tony Awards

Hathaway paired this black strapless Oscar de la Renta dress with red, peep-toe Casadei heels at the Tony Awards in 2009.

2009: Met Gala

Hathaway doesn’t normally wear short dresses, but she looked great in this rich purple Marc Jacobs fall 2009 look at the Met Gala.

2009: Academy Awards

Hathaway’s paillette-covered Armani Privé spring 2009 gown at the 81st annual Oscars is one of her best looks to date.

2009: Golden Globe Awards

The actor tapped Armani Privé for the Golden Globes in 2009, showing up in a dark blue strapless gown with an embellished torso.

2009: Bride Wars Premiere

Hathaway ditched her usual glamorous dresses for a tailored suit with slim pants by Boy. by Band of Outsiders for the premiere of Bride Wars in 2009.

2008: Academy Awards

Hathaway wore a beautifully draped, one-shoulder Marchesa fall 2008 dress to the Academy Awards in 2008.

2008: Venice Film Festival

Hathaway wore this gorgeous, aqua Atelier Versace dress to the Venice premiere of Rachel Getting Married.

2007: Academy Awards

The actor’s strapless, lace Valentino gown was decorated with a black, embellished bow on the front.

2007: SAG Awards

Hathaway wore a black, tiered gown with a large rosette on the torso to the SAG Awards in 2007.

2006: The Devil Wears Prada Premiere

Miranda would have likely approved of the elegant red dress Hathaway wore to The Devil Wears Prada premiere.

2006: SAG Awards

Hathaway wore a satin blue and black Nina Ricci dress to the SAG Awards in 2006.

2005: Brokeback Mountain Premiere

The actor wore a bronze, paillette-covered dress to the premiere of Brokeback Mountain in 2005.

2004: The Princes Diaries 2: Royal Engagement Premiere

Keeping things casual, Hathaway wore boot-cut jeans and a sparkly gray wrap shirt to the premiere of the second Princess Diaries movie in 2004.

2004: Ella Enchanted Premiere

Hathaway wore a pink dress over jeans to the premiere of Ella Enchanted.

2004: Vanity Fair Oscar Party

Wearing a floral orange, body-hugging dress, Hathaway attended the Vanity Fair Oscar party in 2004.

2003: Golden Globe Awards

Hathaway showed a whole lot of leg in this ethereal Elie Saab, empire waist dress at the Golden Globes in January 2003.

2001: The Princess Diaries Premiere

Wearing a simple, strapless mauve dress, Hathaway attended the premiere of The Princess Diaries in 2001.

This year, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Exhibition is all about “Costume Art.” Inspired by the museum’s vast collection, the show will dissect the idea of the dressed body and the relationship between clothing and the human form in art.

Though, the exploration of fashion’s relationship with traditional art is hardly a new phenomenon. For centuries, the two forms have been pulling inspiration from one another, often dipping into the same source of aesthetic inspiration. For examples, 18th century movements like Rococo, Neoclassicism, Romanticism shifted both art and fashion with equal fervor. In more recent times, this pattern has continued, as designers have looked to the art world—or, in some cases, worked directly with artists—for inspiration. The first of such collaborations in modern history dates back to Elsa Schiaparelli’s frequent collaborations with Salvador Dalí in the 1930s, during which the two created many kooky, surreal works together that pushed the boundaries of Great Depression Era dressing. A few decades later, Yves Saint Laurent began creating a whole museum worth of art-adjacent designs, a practice that continued throughout his career. Even this most recent fashion month featured a number of art references, including Rachel Scott’s collection for Diotima. The designer worked with the estate of the late Cuban artist Wilfredo Lam for her fall/winter 2026 show.

It can be expected that some of these joint efforts will make appearances at the Met on May 4, both on the red carpet and within the exhibition. So, to prepare you for the many conversations surrounding art’s influence on fashion, sure to take over as the Met Gala creeps forward, we’re looking back on some of the most memorable art references in fashion over the past 100 years.

Elsa Schiaparelli x Salvador Dalí

One of the first designer/artist collaborations of the modern era was between Elsa Schiaparelli and Salvador Dalí, two artists who bonded over their love of surrealism. There are many pieces that successfully represent this partnership, including the Lobster Dress, Tears Dress, and Shoe Hat. But the first piece they made together was actually a compact powder case, designed to look like a rotary phone dial.

In 1937, the duo created what is likely their most famous collaborative creation, the Lobster Dress, a silk evening gown featuring a large lobster painted on the skirt, inspired by Dalí’s 1936 piece, Lobster Telephone. The dress was part of the 18-piece trousseau Schiaparelli designed for Wallis Simpson following her marriage to the Duke of Windsor. It is currently on view at the V&A’s Schiaparelli exhibition, cementing its legacy within the designer’s archives.

Dalí was hardly the only artist who worked with Schiaparelli during the height of her career, however. Alberto Giacometti designed a series of brooches and buttons for her, and Christian Bérard, Etienne Drian, and Marcel Vertès all created prints at one time or another.

Yves Saint Laurent Autumn/Winter 1965 x Piet Mondrian

Yves Saint Laurent was inspired by art at many points throughout his career, but likely his most famous iteration is the line of cocktail dresses based on Piet Mondrian’s geometrical work. In 1965, as part of the autumn/winter collection, Saint Laurent sent 26 Mondrian-like cocktail dresses down the runway. He was inspired by a book his mother gave him for Christmas, Piet Mondrian Sa vie, son œuvre by Michel Seuphor (1956). While the designs looked simple, the technical prowess needed to create the solid colors, black borders, and simple lines while maintaining virtual seamlessness was an impressive feat.

Yves Saint Laurent Autumn/Winter 1966 x Tom Wesselmann

A year later and Saint Laurent’s captivation with art was still in full force, though it pivoted to the world of Pop Art. The designer sent many color-blocked dresses down the runway of his autumn/winter 1966 show, inspired by the movement. He then ended the show with two designs inspired by Tom Wesselmann and the cutout effect used in his work.

Yves Saint Laurent Autumn/Winter 1979 x Pablo Picasso

There are a few designers who will show up on this list a lot, thanks to their affinity and appreciation for art. Saint Laurent is one of them. He was often looking to the art world for inspiration. In 1979, his eye turned to renowned artist Pablo Picasso, who had just died six years prior.

The designer’s autumn/winter 1979 collection was an homage to Serge Diaghilev, the Russian art critic and founder of Ballets Russes. Diaghilev and Picasso formed a close bond, and Picasso designed the sets and costumes for some of Diaghilev’s ballets. It was specifically the ballet, Parade, presented at the Théâtre du Châtelet in 1917, which Saint Laurent looked toward, and many of the harlequin dresses within the collection come from that reference. But he also pushed further into Picasso’s work, specifically to a 1937 painting, Portrait de Nusch Éluard. Saint Laurent recreated the jacket in the piece and presented it alongside the rest of the Diaghilev collection.

Yves Saint Laurent Autumn/Winter 1981 x Henri Matisse and Fernand Léger

It was a common practice for Saint Laurent to recreate clothing depicted in artwork, just like he did with the jacket in Picasso’s Portrait de Nusch Éluard. In 1981, the designer took a similar approach, sending a handful of hand-painted Romanian folk blouses down the autumn/winter runway, inspired by Henri Matisse, and the clothing illustrated in work like his 1940 painting, La Blouse Roumaine. The style would become a signature for the House, with Saint Laurent, as well as subsequent creative directors, revisiting the top many times over the years.

But Matisse wasn’t the only artist who inspired the autumn/winter 1981 collection. Saint Laurent also looked to cubist artist Fernand Léger, and the designer covered voluminous skirts in colorful cutout shapes reminiscent of both artists’ work.

Yves Saint Laurent Spring/Summer 1988 x Vincent Van Gough

The spring/summer 1988 season brought with it another YSL collection inspired by a famous artist, this time Vincent Van Gogh. Specifically, the Dutch painter’s famed floral paintings, Irises and Sunflowers. Saint Laurent worked with the Parisian embroidery house Maison Lesage to create these jackets. Each one is impressively intricate—made of pearls, ribbons, sequins, and bugle beads—and took over six hundred hours of work. The Irises jacket alone featured 250,000 sequins in twenty-two colors. In 2019, the Sunflowers jacket—originally modeled by Naomi Campbell on the runway—sold at auction for 382,000 euros, while the Irises version earned 175,500 euros.

But Van Gogh wasn’t even the only artist to be referenced in Saint Laurent’s spring 1988 collection. The designer also showed looks based on works by Georges Braque and his bird paintings.

Versace Spring/Summer 1991 x Andy Warhol

Gianni Versace had the pleasure of meeting Andy Warhol when he visited New York for the first time and the two became friends. Warhol even made portraits of the late designer, which were once used for invitations to a Versace fashion show and now decorate Donatella Versace’s house.

Gianni is said to have been enamored with Warhol’s media awareness, but he was also a fan of his work. In 1991, Gianni presented a collection of pieces covered in Warhol’s art, specifically portraits of Marilyn Monroe and James Dean. The collection was such a hit, one dress from the bunch now sits in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, while others are still worn to this day. In 2018, Donatella even brought back the print as part of a tribute collection for her brother.

Vivienne Westwood x The Wallace Collection

Vivienne Westwood’s obsession with art extended far beyond a single look or a one-off collection. The designer was especially taken by the London museum, The Wallace Collection, and often looked to its archive for prints. It was the French Rococo painter, François Boucher, though, who seemed to inspire Westwood the most. She first referenced his work at her autumn/winter 1990 show, where she printed Boucher’s 18th-century painting, Daphnis and Chloe, across dresses, corsets, and other articles of clothing. It was known as The Portrait Collection, and it started a movement for the brand, which is now known for these printed corsets. “I wanted the look of a model who'd just stepped out of a portrait,” Westwood said, adding that she chose Boucher, specifically, because his work is so “typical and so pretty.”

Following that collection, Westwood continued to pull inspiration and imagery from The Wallace Collection. During the spring/summer 1993 season, it was time for the painting Hercules and Omphale to have its moment on the runway. She also used Abduction of Europa as well as Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s The Swarm of Cherubs and The Swing.

Westwood also produced dresses inspired by pieces in Boucher’s paintings. In her 1995 show, Vive La Cocette, she recreated a gown from Boucher’s 1759 portrait of Madame de Pompadour. She returned to the artist and subject in her fall/winter 2002/2003 collection, designing another—this time more subdued—gown from a 1758 portrait of Madame by Boucher.

Vivienne Tam Spring/Summer 1995 x Zhang Hongtu

To this day, Vivienne Tam’s spring 1995 collection remains one of her most impactful. Dubbed the “Mao Collection,” Tam worked with Chinese artist Zhang Hongtu on a series of t-shirts, dresses, and matching sets featuring Mao Zedong, the founding father of the People’s Republic of China and former chairman of the Communist Party of China. The designs are extremely irreverent, with images depicting Mao in ponytails and a frilly collar or smeared with lipstick. It was, of course, a controversial collection, considering its overtly political nature, but it has stood the test of time and is still coveted to this day.

Issey Mikaye Fall/Winter 1996/1997 x Yasumasa Morimura

Three years after launching his Pleats Please line in 1993, Issey Miyake introduced the Guest Artist Series where he collaborated with artists on pieces for the collection. The series kicked off with the help of Japanese photographer Yasumasa Morimura. Known for his reinterpretations of classic art, the works Miyake used in 1996 saw Morimura place himself within Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres's 1856 painting, La Source. Possibly the most recognized piece from the collection features an inverted image of Morimura set below the nude from the painting.

The Guest Artist Series would continue on for a few more years, featuring works by Nobuyoshi Araki, Tim Hawkinson, and Cai Guo Qiang.

Louis Vuitton x Takashi Murakami 

A list of fashion’s art world references just wouldn’t be complete without the Louis Vuitton x Takashi Murakami collection. Six years into his tenure at LV, Marc Jacobs already had two successful artist collaborations under his belt, with Stephen Sprouse in 2001 and Julie Verhoeven in 2002. But when he tapped Japanese artist Murakami to reimagine the classic brand monogram in his style, he hit gold. Murakami created the now iconic candy-colored designs, featuring flowers, cherries, and Murakami’s beloved “Creatures from Planet 66.” The limited-edition collection sold out in just hours and was suddenly on the arms of every It girl, including Mean Girls’s Regina George. Two decades later, and it was time to bring Murakami back into the fold. In 2024, LV released a re-edition of the collection, featuring both old and updated designs, pushing the collaboration even further into belts, sneakers, scarves, wallets, and sunglasses.

Jean Paul Gaultier Spring 2003 Couture x Edgar Degas

If this dress from Jean Paul Gaultier’s spring 2003 couture collection looks familiar, there are likely two reasons. One, because it features scenes from Edgar Degas’s famous ballerina paintings. But you also might recognize it because Chappell Roan wore the dress to the Grammys last year.

Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama 

One of the most iconic and well-known designer/artist collaborations of the 21st century is undoubtedly the one between Marc Jacobs’s Louis Vuitton and Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. Together, the pair created a collection covered in Kusama’s signature polka dots, placing the pattern on everything from dresses to, of course, handbags.

Jacobs initially met Kusama during a trip to Japan in 2006 after admiring the artist's work for years. Their collection, however, wouldn’t come to fruition for six more years until 2012, with its launch coinciding with a number of Kusama exhibitions, including a retrospective at the Whitney Museum in New York, sponsored by Louis Vuitton. The collection was a major success, so much so that, in 2023, LV worked with Kusama again on a second one.

Raf Simons Spring 2013 Menswear x Brian Calvin

Raf Simons has collaborated with many people over the years while designing for his eponymous brand, Calvin Klein, and Dior. He has used the work of Sterling Ruby, Peter De Potter, and Willy Vanderperre on various collections, but it was his designs featuring paintings by Brian Calvin that were the most impactful. Perhaps that’s because Calvin’s work can be unsettling at times. His cubist-adjacent 2D paintings peeked out through a pink jacket, inviting the viewer to come closer, if they dare.

Valentino Spring/Summer 2017 x The Garden of Earthly Delights

There was a lot of pressure on Pierpaolo Piccioli ahead of the Valentino spring/summer 2017 show. His longtime collaborator, Maria Grazia Chiuri, had left for Dior, and he was on his own for the first time. So, Piccioli turned to medieval art, specifically, the work of Hieronymus Bosch and his triptych, The Garden of Earthly Delights, for some support. He commissioned designer Zandra Rhodes to create prints based on the work, sending diaphanous, sheer gowns sprinkled with the depictions of paradise down the runway.

Louis Vuitton x Jeff Koons

Louis Vuitton continued to build on the arty bag legacy started by Jacobs in the 2000s and, in 2017, released a collaboration with American artist Jeff Koons. Surprisingly though, Koons’s own creations were completely missing from the 51-piece collection, which saw classic works of art emblazoned on various LV bags.

Inspired by Koons’s 2015 Gazing Ball series, the collections placed art by Van Gogh, Leonardo da Vinci, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and more artists on LV’s most popular accessories. If there is any question as to who painted these iconic works, the pieces were then finished off with the artists’ names in large metal letters across the front.

Calvin Klein Spring 2018 x Andy Warhol

Raf Simons worked with the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts on his spring 2018 collection for Calvin Klein. The designer was inspired by horror films, specifically their “depictions of both an American nightmare, and the all-powerful American dream,” as he explained in the show notes. Using graphics from Warhol’s Death and Disaster series, Simons printed images of car crashes upon shift dresses and Sandra Brant’s face on tank tops while Brant herself watched from the show’s front row.

Comme des Garçons Spring 2018 x Giuseppe Arcimboldo

In 2017, Rei Kawakubo presented her usually bulbous, avant-garde silhouettes, this time rendered in an array of colorful, eye-catching patterns. Abstract colors, anime, and childlike maps covered the designer’s radical shapes. There was little to no theme among the patterns aside from explosive color, offset by a few all-white ensembles. Two pieces from the collection boasted paintings by 16th-century Italian artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo, known for depicting figures with heads made of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and fish. His 1591 portrait of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, called Vertumnus, therefore, fit perfectly as a pattern within the collection.

Moschino Spring/Summer 2020 x Pablo Picasso

Throughout his tenure at Moschino, Jeremy Scott often looked to the art world for inspiration, interpreting classic works in extremely literal ways. For Moschino’s spring/summer 2020 collection, Scott turned his gaze toward Pablo Picasso.

Scott managed to represent an impressive amount of Picasso’s oeuvre in the collection. It was truly a night at the museum where works of art came to life and strutted right by you, before returning to their stagnant life. Kaia Gerber walked the runway in a 3D rendering of the 1914 work Guitar, while Bella Hadid was dressed like a harlequin who walked right out of one of the Spanish artist’s paintings. There were references to Girl Before a Mirror (1932) and the larger cubist movement. Models walked through giant gold frames, while some carried them on the runway. There were also matadors and a cubist-adjacent bull mask thanks to milliner Stephen Jones.

Diotima Fall 2026 x Wifredo Lam

Rachel Scott’s most recent collection for Diotima was inspired by the Cuban artist Wilfredo Lam. In her show notes, Scott wrote that Lam’s “visual language carries a consciousness that resonates deeply with my own.”

The designer worked with Lam’s estate on the collection, using versions of his Femme Cheval paintings as well as the 1943 work Omi Obini. One of the Femme Chevals was rendered in fluffy organza to create a halter dress and maxi skirt, while Omi Obini was desaturated and placed on a jacket and wrap skirt.

It seems like everyone has an opinion on Coachella this year. According to the online masses, the influencers did too much, but Justin Bieber didn’t do enough. The crowds were underwhelming, and the attendees overprivileged. Social media is overflowing as everyone dissects all the brand trips, guest appearances, and mic levels (were they on at all?). But we’re going to leave all those discussions to the “experts.” Instead, we’re here to talk about the clothes. Because while Coachella may be a music festival, it has also become another opportunity for artists to flex their fashion chops, and this year, the performers took it to another level. Sabrina Carpenter set the bar with multiple Dior-provided outfit changes during her night one headlining performance. Bieber, meanwhile, placed himself on the entire other end of the spectrum when he spent his entire set in a hoodie and shorts (though one could call the removal of his sweatshirt a sort of Bieber-level “reveal”). In between those two extremes, we had looks from Sombr, Katseye, and Addison Rae, as well as many of the artists who snuck into the lineup in the form of guest spots. So, if you didn’t have the opportunity—or desire—to head to the desert this year, we’re rounding up all the Coachella looks from both weekends so you can enjoy them from the comfort of your couch. No camping necessary.

Weekend Two: Sabrina Carpenter and Madonna

Just like with week one, Sabrina Carpenter wore all Dior when she took the stage for her second Coachella performance. There was a bit of variety—her first red dress turned blue, conversely, her blue turtleneck turned red, and her black lace bodysuit changed to white. The big headline, though, isn’t the color swaps, but the inclusion of Madonna onstage. The Queen of Pop joined Carpenter in an all purple look, featuring the same boots, corset, and Gucci jacket she wore 20 years prior when she last performed at Coachella.

Justin Bieber

Justin Bieber also followed a similar outfit formula for weekend two. He swapped out his pink Skylrk sweatshirt for a Greg Ross sleeveless zip-up, but he made up for it by wearing his brand’s shorts. He also traded black Loewe boots for a tan pair.

Sza

Bieber was joined on stage by many special guests on Saturday night, including Sza, who matched the headliner’s laidback aesthetic in a denim jacket and flannel shirt from Balenciaga.

Billie Eilish

Bieber’s “One Less Lonely Girl,” Billie Eilish, meanwhile, was pushed on stage in a purple Nike x Supreme track jacket.

Karol G

Like Carpenter, Karol G also wore similar designs in different colors for her weekend two headlining set. Again, she wore a look from Etro, though this time it was orange instead of blue.

Olivia Rodrigo

Olivia Rodrigo joined Addison Rae and Maddie Ziegler on stage in a custom studded bra from R & M Leathers, vintage Diesel jeans from Bluey Denim, and white Louboutin heels.

Kacey Musgraves

Kacey Musgraves made an unexpected appearance during Coachella weekend two in Levi’s x Bode jeans.

Ethel Cain

Dior dressed Ethel Cain in a draped black silk dress with a floral headpiece for weekend two.

Lisa and Anyma

Lisa joined Anyma on stage in an Iris Van Herpen dress, and since the DJ’s weekend one set was canceled, he was finally able to show off his all-white Vetements look.

Sombr

The rocker wore another custom Valentino look for his second Coachella performance.

Giveon

Giveon looked dapper in a Balenciaga suit.

Labrinth

Labrinth also wore Balenciaga, albeit he brought some color in a red coat.

Central Cee

Central Cee took the weekend two stage in a red velvet Gucci zip-up and branded belt.

Taemin Lee

Taemin Lee wore another full Saint Laurent look for his second set, taking the stage in a taffeta shirt, silk satin tie, and silk pants.

Weekend One: Sabrina Carpenter

Sabrina Carpenter was decked out in custom Dior for her headlining Coachella performance. In addition to this sequined mini dress with draped chiffon sleeves, Jonathan Anderson also created multiple other looks for the pop star. Everything she wore during her set, including the red mini, white two-piece, and lace body suit, was made for her by Dior.

Justin Bieber

Unlike Sabrina Carpenter, who had many outfit changes throughout her set, Justin Bieber kept his wardrobe very simple. The singer began his headlining performance in an oversize pink hoodie from his own brand, Skylrk, and baggy shorts by Lu’u Dan. He completed the ensemble with Loewe Bobby lug-soled boots and a gray, cropped tee, which he revealed halfway through the performance.

Karol G

Karol G was one who took advantage of the big career moment and rocked many different looks throughout her performance. The highlight, though, was undoubtedly the colorful custom Etro set featuring a tassle-adorned skirt, topped with a feathered Luar headpiece, and completed with Shoe Lab Doheny boots.

The Colombian singer also dripped in gold in this chain-heavy set by Michael Schmidt Studios.

While this silver set (also by Michael Schmidt Studios) gave high fashion Flintstones.

This white outfit was contrasted by the ruffled sleeves, which represented the colors of the Colombian flag. The top was created by Adan Terriquez, while Doni Nahmias took on the skirt, and Courreges made the boots.

Becky G

Clearly, Becky G got the colorful memo. She joined Karol onstage in a green and blue look featuring fishnet pants and a beaded top.

Laufey

The Icelandic singer wore a custom tulle Rodarte dress featuring hand beaded Swarovski crystals for her weekend one performance.

Addison Rae

Addison Rae kicked off her set in a gray corseted dress with a tulle skirt from Miss Claire Sullivan.

She later removed the dress to reveal a red latex Agent Provocateur set, which she topped with a matching Ruslan Baginskiy hat.

PinkPantheress

PinkPantheress also wore custom Miss Claire Sullivan, though she later took off the red, white, and blue tulle skirt to reveal blue leggings underneath.

Pink stuck to her patriotic color scheme and changed into a red bandage dress and one-legged blue tights.

At one point, Pink went even more casual and threw on a blue jacket, oversized jeans, and Ugg ballet sneakers.

Ethel Cain

Ethel Cain also got the Dior treatment. She performed her set in custom black denim pinstripe overalls featuring the classic C and D logo on the straps.

Sombr

Sombr looked very much like the classic rocker in a custom Valentino ensemble featuring a rock-studded leather jacket and pants a top a lace long sleeve.

Slayyyter

Unsurprisingly, Slayyyter opted to DIY her Coachella look, which she completed with a bedazzled “Worst Girl at Coachella” trucker hat.

Maria Zardoya

The Puerto Rican-American singer looked like an absolute angel in custom McQueen. She wore an ivory sherling bolero on top of a corset and spiral-cut skirt.

FKA Twigs

FKA twigs wore a feather-covered Guvanch look during her set.

Katseye

Despite the many colors and patterns of their La Lune looks, Katseye still managed to coordinate their outfits (with help from their custom Stand Oil boots).

Central Cee

Central Cee looked comfy in a custom Gap zip-up featuring the word “Cap,” Union Jack–adorned denim shorts also courtesy of Gap, and a Louis Vuitton belt.

Fakemink

Fakemink took the stage in a white tee and sparkly Hedi Slimane–era Dior Homme jeans with a Burberry scarf tied around his waist.

Young Thug

The Atlanta rapper wore a jersey from his own brand, Sp5der, along with studded, snake-print pants.

Julian Casablancas

No, the Strokes’s frontman wasn’t wearing an Amazon Prime T-shirt, but one that boasted the word “Crime” from Villainous New York.

Meg Mills

The Turnstile guitarist wore a Chopova Lowena skirt for the band’s performance.

Holly Humberstone

The British singer wore a white Dilara Findikoglu mini dress with a shell-adorned antique Rebecca Sweeting headpiece and Lili Curia lace-up boots.

Taemin Lee

The K-Pop star wore a full Saint Laurent look to perform on day two of the festival.

If you haven’t seen actress and comedian Quen Blackwell posting her Coachella Weekend 1 experience—working full looks, taking selfies with fans on the festival grounds—there’s a good reason why. The 25-year-old, who hosts the YouTube series Feeding Starving Celebs and boasts over 17 million followers across Instagram and TikTok, didn’t skip out on what many call the “influencer Olympics.” She simply went analog this year. “I’m doing a phone-free Coachella,” she told W. “This is the weekend when the industry collectively takes a break.”

It might seem like an oxymoron: How can someone who built their career around a constant online presence abandon her all-important instrument on this weekend, of all weekends? The secret is, content was still being produced (albeit with more retro technology) and the outfits were well-documented for delayed consumption. It’s all about compromise, right?

Blackwell’s no-phone weekend gave her a moment to sit down with W on Friday morning. From the comfort of her luxurious arrangements at the expansive Guess compound, Blackwell discussed her romantic and girly looks for the weekend, her No. 1 Coachella tip, and why she’s avoiding alcohol this year (sort of).

Is there a particular theme unifying your Coachella looks?

Free, chic, fun, happy, and light. My vibe is going to the vintage store and reworking any piece that I get.

How does that manifest in an outfit?

Today, I’m wearing a Guess belt, but I sewed it onto a vintage skirt. On top, I’m wearing this shrug I also got from the thrift store—it’s vintage Maison Margiela—and just a bra. I have the tabi Nike shoes so my feet don’t fall off, because we’re going to be doing a lot of walking today. But the Guess belt influenced the entire outfit. It feels classic Coachella, with a little a modern edge.

You also wore Guess last night to the brand’s welcome dinner on Thursday. It was a super girly look. What inspired that?

I’m in love right now. I’m just feeling the romance in everything I do. That was my favorite look of the weekend—it was frilly, Y2K, to the 10th power. I felt like I should have gone to the Video Music Awards in it.

How did that look come about?

My stylist and I helped create the outfit with Guess. In the beginning, the brand was like, “You can select some of our clothes and make an outfit from that.” And we’re like, “We’re extra. Can we ask for a custom look?” We collaborated on it and made it pink and fun for this light and airy era of my life.

This is your fourth Coachella in a row. Do you ever consider skipping out on a year?

I’ll say, “No, not this year,” when I have kids or something. But I’m going to take advantage of my youth while I have it. It’s Coachella. People around the world are watching it from a phone. We have the opportunity to be here, so why not? Even though it is miserable at points, it’s good misery.

What is in your festival bag?

I recently watched a microplastic documentary, so now I have a stainless steel water bottle. It does have a plastic cap, so I am getting a little shot of death, but it’ll work for now. Then I have a little cover-up, because I always go to Coachella pretty much naked; by the time the sun goes down, it’s frigid and windy. I bring a change of clothes so I don’t have to run back to the Guess compound before my favorite artists at night. I also brought a whole bunch of old digital cameras I got on eBay to capture content without my phone.

When you posted that you planned to log off for the weekend, I thought you were kidding.

No, dead ass. And it’s nice. I have had a phone addiction since I was 10 years old. I finally feel free. I’m also going to a darkness retreat when I get back to L.A., where I don’t speak or see anyone for three days. I know I’ll never be completely free of my phone because we’re in the digital age. But I’m getting some of my boredom back. You create some of your best work when you’re bored—and the scroll has taken away the boredom. I’m just trying to find a nice balance.

I would like to backtrack for a second and point out that your “layer” for tonight is a superlight fishnet-slash-knit cover-up. I don’t think that’s going to keep you warm.

It’s all about the rags and tatters. That’s my Coachella vibe this year. And if I get super cold, then one of my friends can lie on top of me and we can be warm together.

What is your best Coachella style tip?

Wear comfortable shoes. Babe, do not wear a high-heel flip-flop. The middle of your toes will be gone. You will die. You will die the worst death: foot death. They will fall off. And cowboy boots are cute for two hours, but not a full day and 30,000 steps.

What about a non-fashion Coachella tip?

Don’t try to find the coolest thing. Try to find the funnest thing. There’s all this ego when a whole bunch of celebrities or entertainers meet up together. It’s easy to be like, “Oh my gosh, so and so is going to be at this event? We should go.” But do you actually want to be there, or does your ego want to be there? Where does your heart want to be? That’s where you should go.

Who are you most excited to see perform this weekend?

That’s a hard one. I’m excited to see Sabrina Carpenter. I love her set designs. I also want to see Sexyy Red and shake my ass. Also, Blood Orange and Lykke Li. Lykke is the queen of niche. She is the underground overlord, and I need to witness that in real life. I want to see Addison, of course. I love her stage presence.

What have you learned from all your experiences at Coachella that you will be putting into practice this year?

No alcohol. Well, not no alcohol, but less alcohol. Because alcohol slows me down, and I can’t afford to be slowed down. So fewer shots, but maybe some mixed drinks.

You seem to be backtracking.

Just half a shot.…Okay, maybe three or four.